Marc Steyn

✍️ Word Wrestler 🏕 Tree Hugger 🛍 SME Fan 🕰 History Nut 📽 Cinephile
🛠 Startup Growth Strategies 🖱️Platform Economy

[Chief Whip @ReprobateCoZa]

1) Large parts of the legal industry should have been automated ages ago. E.g. conveyancers are ripping off clients for cut and paste jobs.

Lawyers in SA still operate like a medieval guild with no real civilian oversight. Cue widespread lawyer fraud and client abuse.

2) There's an opportunity for smart young black lawyers to undercut established white firms with discounts and superior outcomes. Especially with specialisation such as IP or Maritime law.

In the private sector money saved has no colour. But you must be willing to do the hard yards, build a portfolio from the ground up, and market yourself aggressively

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

Once again @EasyEquities completely messes up a corporate action. Use their platform at your peril.

Why would you send the repurchase offer email for the Clientèle Limited delisting at 18:00 on the last day to trade?

Now shareholders are forced to accept a 20% dividend tax!

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

@EasyEquities Why are you sending the repurchase offer email for Clientèle Limited shares at 18:00 on the last day to trade the share? Now you are forcing shareholders to accept the offer with 20% dividend withholding tax!!!!

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

@EasyEquities Why are you sending the repurchase offer email for Clientèle Limited shares at 18:00 on the last day to trade the share? Now you are forcing shareholders to accept the offer with 20% dividend withholding tax!!!!

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

@EasyEquities Why are you sending the repurchase offer email for Clientèle Limited shares at 18:00 on the last day to trade the share? Now you are forcing shareholders to accept the offer with 20% dividend withholding tax!!!!

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

@EasyEquities @Springboks Why are you sending the repurchase offer email for Clientèle Limited shares at 18:00 on the last day to trade the share? Now you are forcing shareholders to accept the offer with 20% dividend withholding tax!!!!

[OmniMACS @OmniMACS]

As the aphorism goes, "Those who can't do, teach; and those who can't teach, critique."

The business ecosystem hierarchy:
entrepreneurs > educators > analysts.

Which category is most open to AI disruption, cynical rent-seeking & catering to vested interests?

[Chief Whip @ReprobateCoZa]

Is hypocrisy and bias among South Africa's mainstream journalists getting out of hand? Who watches the watchers?

https://t.co/AWFQq4UCha

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Samuel Henderson, the autistic student with Tourette syndrome who has a knack for perfectly imitating the sounds of over 50 types of birds.

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

Sorkin's full address: https://t.co/pFFJTyQLin

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

Reflecting on Andrew Sorkin’s rather wonderful commencement address at Kogod School of Business, one is confronted with a piercing truth regarding the unholy trinity of insecurity, ambition, and happiness.

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

What we are so reliably instructed to revere as unrelenting ambition may indeed project the glittering, outward facade of worldly success, but it is a hollow idol, one that almost never pays out in the actual currency of human contentment.

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

@CapitecBankSA Why do you use a rubbish courier like SkyNet Express? Notified of delivery at 11 am - still waiting at 6 pm.

If you can't get the logistics right, don't offer the service.

[Chief Whip @ReprobateCoZa]

South Africa has more native English speakers (L1) than Ireland, Scotland or New Zealand.

🇿🇦 5.2M (2022 census)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿5.1M (2022 census)
🇮🇪 5M (2022 census)
🇳🇿 4.8M (2022 census)

#Languages

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

Tidal pools are a wonderful feature of the South African coastline and one of the better legacies of British colonialism. The one at #Gouritsmond in the Southern Cape is particularly striking, far removed from urban congestion & crime, with panoramic views over the Indian ocean.

[OmniMACS @OmniMACS]

Should have been a berry farmer 🤔

[OmniMACS @OmniMACS]

Ecommerce startup? Most case studies over-focus on *what* OG platforms like Amazon or Airbnb achieved.

This case study goes deeper - it looks at 13 ways Amazon built its marketplace empire by analysing the *how* and *why* of their strategies.

https://t.co/QFNuGUpAF3

[Marc Steyn @MarcSteyn]

Hey @AASouthAfrica you need to fix your platform. Password reset links are not being emailed, making it impossible to log into my account.

[Chief Whip @ReprobateCoZa]

#Santosh

One of those brilliant Indian movies that utilise small personal dramas to address wider social issues.

You know it's a great movie when governments censor it to cover up their failures.

#movie #film #Cinema #censorship #India